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Amelie is the name of a girl I know, who's from London. Her English A sound in Amelie is not quite the same as the A sounds we make around here. The closest I can get is to rhyme it with camel-ee (often comes out rhyming family). I'm told that most of the Americans at school pronounce it AH-muh-lee, approximately to rhyme homily. Amelie's mother says something in-between - but IMO closer to camel-ee than to 'omily. She doesn't always put any emphasis on the ee, either.

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Anyway the name is nice, but it's a little frustrating to pronounce in English. And no matter how we say it, it isn't different enough from Emily to be worth the trouble IMHO.

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I'd rather meet an Emily than an Amelie, and I'd rather meet an Emilia than an Amelia.
Amelie vs Amelia ... I dunno, I guess I'll vote for Amelie, as long as it's AM-elie and nobody's pronouncing it to rhyme with homily because that sounds ugly to me in English.

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- mirfak

This message was edited 9/26/2017, 4:24 PM